![]() ![]() William James, in The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902), described New Thought: William James used the term "New Thought" as synonymous with the "Mind cure movement", in which he included many sects with diverse origins, such as idealism and Hinduism. ![]() ![]() "our mental states are carried forward into manifestation and become our experience in daily living".and teaching and healing one another" and "the highest spiritual principle loving one another unconditionally.divinity dwells within each person, that all people are spiritual beings.God or Infinite Intelligence is "supreme, universal, and everlasting".Although New Thought is neither monolithic nor doctrinaire, in general, modern-day adherents of New Thought share some core beliefs: New Thought holds that Infinite Intelligence, or God, is everywhere, spirit is the totality of real things, true human selfhood is divine, divine thought is a force for good, sickness originates in the mind, and "right thinking" has a healing effect. The contemporary New Thought movement is a loosely allied group of religious denominations, authors, philosophers, and individuals who share a set of beliefs concerning metaphysics, positive thinking, the law of attraction, healing, life force, creative visualization, and personal power. Many of these groups are incorporated into the International New Thought Alliance. Though no direct line of transmission is traceable, many adherents to New Thought in the 19th and 20th centuries claimed to be direct descendants of those systems.Īlthough there have been many leaders and various offshoots of the New Thought philosophy, the origins of New Thought have often been traced back to Phineas Quimby, or even as far back as Franz Mesmer, who was one the first European thinkers to link one's mental state to physical condition. New Thought was seen by its adherents as succeeding "ancient thought", accumulated wisdom and philosophy from a variety of origins, such as Ancient Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Chinese, Taoist, Vedic, Hindu, and Buddhist cultures and their related belief systems, primarily regarding the interaction among thought, belief, consciousness in the human mind, and the effects of these within and beyond the human mind. The New Thought movement (also Higher Thought) is a spiritual movement that coalesced in the United States in the early 19th century. 'Three Initiates' (authors of the Kybalion). ![]()
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